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5 tips for making long words in word games

February 6, 2023

One night in the late 1960s, the members of the British band Fairport Convention were travelling back to London after … Continued

April 11, 2022

I started Wordle #285 with a streak of forty-nine consecutive wins, hoping to notch up a half-century. It proved to

April 5, 2022

Some Wordle puzzles leave you scratching your head to find any word that might fit into a particular pattern of

March 30, 2022

Wordle #281 was not my finest hour. However, it did raise the interesting question of how to get started again

March 28, 2022

The Chinese proverb says that a journey of a million miles begins with a single step. Even in a game

March 19, 2021

One year ago, in March 2020, there was a very clear theme linking many of the new words that were

February 25, 2021

Have you ever seen your pet sploot? You may well have done, even if you didn’t know that there was

February 19, 2021

The events surrounding trading in the shares of the American company GameStop have provided us with one of the more

January 19, 2021

(Updated from 7 US political terms to baffle the Brits, published on 7th November 2020) The United States will inaugurate